In your path to a Gold Medal Mindset for Success, mental preparation can do for the mind what stretching does for the body. It can make all the difference in how you and your clients experience your workouts and racing regardless of your fitness level or sport. Yet it is a skill that even the most conditioned athletes fail to practice sufficiently.

Just like we work out our bodies, we need to exercise the brain. Mental training is like taking your brain to the gym. We want our bodies to have many different gears and speeds. We also need the mind to flexible, to shift into different gears, depending on the task at hand.

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About the Author: Sports psychology expert, Dr. JoAnn Dahlkoetter is a peak performance coach, best-selling author of YOUR PERFORMING EDGE, STANFORD Performance Consultant, sports psychologist to OLYMPIC Gold Medalists and CEOs, winner of the San Francisco Marathon and 2nd in the World Championship Hawaii Ironman Triathlon.

She is an internationally recognized Keynote Speaker, columnist, and frequent TV expert commentator on NBC, ABC, and BBC networks.